May 05, 2008	Monday	Rabi-us-Sani 28, 1429

MIANWALI, May 4: The Kundian police on Sunday handed over the two minor sisters, who were detained by a landlord over their father’s failure to clear his debt, to the family at their residence in Chak 1-ML.

The police arrested the creditor, Muhammad Azeem, a money lender of katcha Gujrat area in Mianwali, who had kept the farm worker’s two daughters in captivity. They had already registered a case against him under section 342 of PPC.

Muhammad Ramzan, the farm worker, borrowed Rs8,000 from Azeem two years ago, but failed to return the amount which came to Rs30,000, including interest. The landlord, however, forced his debtor’s two minor daughters – Ruqayia, 4, and Bilqees, 6, to perform chores at his outhouse as punishment for their father.

It was the other day that the police intervened and rescued the innocent girls from the landlord, with some philanthropists from Karachi coming forward to pay the loan to save the girls after the news hit the headlines.